Research Article

Evaluation of Groundwater Storage Variations in Northern China Using GRACE Data

Table 1

Results compared with previous studies in the North China Plain.

PeriodStudy area (km2)Yearly depletion rate of groundwater (cm yr−1)Authors

2003–2010~370,0001.90~2.50Feng et al. [26]
2003–2011~300,0000.84~1.40Tang et al. [27]
2005–2010~140,0002.25~4.15Huang et al. [22]
2009–2014~380,0000.67~1.15Results in this paper